- Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (26 April 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140107649
- ISBN-13: 978-0140107647
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,384,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Keenan maintains impressive control over a wonderfully ludicrous plot… with a finale that is staggeringly, hilariously contrived.’
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‘Joe Keenan has put the ‘high’ back into high jinks... refreshingly effervescent.’
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Joe Keenan is the genius responsible for many, if not all, of the best episodes of Frasier - The Matchmaker, The Two Mrs Cranes, The Ski Lodge, Out With Dad, The Doctor Is Out... basically this guy is a master of farce construction.
And this book is in the same tradition. The plotting is extraordinary. The jokes are stunning. You know those books where the back cover says 'Laugh out loud funny' which means there is a mildly amusing bit of wordplay on page 28? Well, this book isn't like that. It genuinely is laugh out loud material, though it's more snort out loud, whoop out loud and guffaw out loud.
How would I describe the book? It's like PG Wodehouse - it has the same easy breeziness - but with more sex and drugs.
I don't normally write these review things but this book was so much fun I feel moved to stick my hand up and say, 'Hey, people, buy this, it's great.'
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Its wonderful that this book will be back in print again soon. It is a delicious romp and one of the few books that genuinely made me laugh out loud. A great debut novel, it shows how a gay man gets caught up in an elaborate swindle by getting married for the gifts.
The plot thickens as it is suspected that Gils stepfather is a member of a mafia family. Things go from bad to worse as the tale of lies and deceit gathers. I dare you not to secretly love Moira and her scheming ways, or the fabulous Vulpina!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Thank goodness this book is coming back into print - I lent my copy to someone who dropped it in the bath and then "lost" it! Hysterically funny .... the phrase "NOT THE GIFTS!" is right up there in my ranking of memorable literary phrases with "a handbag?" and "It is a truth universally acknowledged ..".
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Very enjoyable
Decided to buy this after reading a review in Elle mgazine and was encouraged by Joe Keenan being a producer for Frazier, found the book very funny with lots of unexpected twists. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Love it!!
Not quite my lucky star
I know many people have said that they feel blue heaven is Keenen's best but it just didn't quite do if for me as much as My Lucky star (the 3rd in the series), however having said... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Luke
Be prepared to laugh out loud
This is a truly hilarious book; think Wodehouse on speed. When you have finished laughing go and buy the next two in the series - 'Putting on the Ritz' and 'My Lucky Star'; you'll... Read more
Published 17 months ago by S. E. Walsh
Blue heaven by Joe Kennan
I picked this book as my bookclub next reading material. It is entertaining, quick and uncomplicated read. Read more
Published 21 months ago by G777
Can't recomend enough
As a comedy writer, Keenan is in a class of his own. A master of wordplay and sophisticated farce, his writing pedigree (he wrote some of the funniest episodes of Frasier)shines... Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2010 by KPC
Buy and Buy again
thank God I'm not the only person to have bought multiple copies of this book
I'm now on my fifth copy! Read more
I'm now on my fifth copy! Read more
Published on 21 Jun 2007 by Acting Bear
BUY! BUY! BUY!
The funniest book I have ever read. I'm now on copy number 4 and still never get tired of reading this book. Read more
Published on 8 April 2003 by "flip654"
Mixes chaos and camp with gallons of champagne!!
What a blast!! This book is SUCH a MUST READ - no review could ever do it justice. This and 'Putting on the Ritz' are, without exception, two of the best books i've ever read -... Read more
Published on 20 May 2002
excellent, fab a must read!!!!!
i first discovered this book by chance about five years ago. ever since then i take it on holiday every time and read it at least once a year. Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2001
Extraordinarily witty, tightly written romp!
The plot is completely over-the-top: a most unlikely wedding, a pastiche duchess, the Mafia connection, the mobsters' favourite restauarnt, and a blow-out finale . . . Read more
Published on 23 Aug 1999
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